samedi 25 février 2017

La Cage royale

I had the honour to be invited to take part into the opening night of "La Cage royal" at l'Escargot in Soho.

" Throughout 2017, La Cage Royale will provide a regular home for the most exciting visual art makers, performance artists, musicians, activists, forward thinkers, sartorial eccentrics, their friends and supporters. A platform for new work, experimental theatre, intimate performances, cutting edge cabaret, recorded and live music… culminating to some fabulous dancing and celebrating!

Focused on the philosophy of spontaneous creative expression, freedom, generosity and reviving the bohemian spirit of London through the mediums of poetry, music, singing, spirituality, open sharing platform, magic, dancing, performance art, costumes and much more, it will bring under one roof the warmest and brightest leading lights of the city.

I especially crafted this performance for the occasion, inspired by the surrealistic aesthetic of the building and the concept of "cage" that I translated into a tent dress and I came out with this "Psychedelic tea time" Alice in Wonderland mad hatter inspired.

I made the circus tent dress for a colour walk last year (see picture), but I decided to develop the potential interactive element of the costume as you can go inside of the children tent.

I had a miniature porcelain tea set where I was pouring bourbon in instead of tea. I was inviting the audience gathered in the green salon to pick a card and then find the matching pair which was hung inside the dress. When they pulled the curtain, they could discover a magical world with fairy LED light and alice in wonderland music coming from my phone hidden in my pans!

When they found the matching pair, they had to drink the magical beverage in the tea cup as a shot to celebrate.

In this performance I am exploring the concept of endangerment on two different level. first because I am getting vulnerable by letting audience go under my skirt, and interact, what about if a member of the audience goes to far? should I interrupt the show or you have to keep performing?

And also with the drinking and the risk of getting drunk and loosing control as I was taking a shoot of Bourbon every time a person was finding the matching pair.

Even if Sue Kreitzman goes to the market every thursday as a ritualistic pilgrimage organising a colour walk make it a bit special!

Colour people seems to appear from nowhere and gather around Las Iguanas. Staff usually thing is it a kind of flash mob and clients get a bit overwhelmed with the amount of colours splashing everywhere!

Still inspired by circus theme, this is my outfit for Last colour walk, an alternative ringmaster outfit.A old vintage velvet dress hollywood styleI cut in half to make it a cancan dancer long top I could take into an glittery stars short.So the outfit is between a dress and a two pieces suit playing between masculinity and femininity.

The neckpiece is an intricate piece of embroideries with traditional guatemalan worry dolls, a local legend about the origin of the Muñeca quitapena refers to a Mayan princess named Ixmucane. The princess received a special gift from the sun god which would allow her to solve any problem a human could worry about.

In traditional and modern times, worry dolls are given or lent to brooding and sorrowful children. They would tell their doll about their sorrows, fears and worries, then hide it under their pillow during the night. After this, the child will literally sleep over the whole thing. At the next morning, all sorrows are said to have been taken away by the worry doll

Getting an invitation to Sue Kreitzman house is always a delight. Less is less and more is just not quite enough ✨don't wear beige it may kill you ✨ As Sue is always acquiring new art pieces her personal museum is evolving in a perpetual vital spark.

I know it would be a nightmare and really oppressing for some people to leave in such a crowded and rococo space but for me, I just feel I fit in!

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I am a young designer in fashion costume and jewellery. I graduated last year in an MA in Performance Practice & Design at Central Saint Martins in London. I'm particularly interested in costume design, the performative aspect of costume and it social impact on people.

From my background in performance, the importance of clothing is how it allows you to stage yourself, to give information about who you are, or more precisely, about what you want people think you are.

I'm from Paris but I don't have at all the elegant minimalistic French style, I'm more attracted by bright colours, mismatch prints, shiny materials, over the top dresses. I try to build clothes with material which are not fabric, crossing boundaries of the costume experiment. I think that any object from everyday life can become a fashion accessory. Anything can be stitched on to clothes.

Basically, I like CYCLING and RECYCLING. I love going to charity shops or flee markets and seeing the creative potential of everyday objects. i have always created costume with nothing, sometimes with things I found in the street. I like to give second life to old objects and divert them from their original function. In my creations, i'm using a lots of toys, as a common reference from the collective imagery, a reminder of childhood that everybody shares in every country. I like the idea of transforming a piece of clothes into piece of art. With my creations I would like to foster peoples’ creativity and make them proud of themselves in feeling unique, original and different.

If you have some barbies you are not playing with anymore, Legos, little cars or toys, please give it to me, I will use them and give them an other live!

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I am currently completing an MA in Performance Practice and Design at Central Saint Martins and from my background in performance, the importance of clothing is how it allows you to stage yourself, to give information about who you are, or more precisely, about what you want people think you are.
With my creations I would like to foster peoples’ creativity and make them proud of themselves in feeling unique, original and different.